Shoe-cleaning apparatus.



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B. AV01\T SALVIATI. SHOE 'CLEANING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED APB.. 5, 1905,

Patented oct. 27, 1908,

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BERTHA VON SALVIATI, OF DUSSELDORF, GERMANY.

SHOE-CLEANING APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 27, 1908.

Application filed April 5, 1905. Serial No. 254,043.

To all whom it may concern? Be it known that .I, BERTHA voN SALVIATI, a subject of the German Emperor, and resident of Dusseldorf, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shoe- Cleaning Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object an apparatus for cleaning and polishing boots and shoes. The new eature of the apparatus, in the face of the already known a aratus of this kind, consists in arranging the main parts such as brushes, devices for putting on the blacking and so on, in a drum turning on a horizontal axle and further in the arrank ement of a series of peripheral apertures for access of the foot-wear to the brushes in such a manner as to accommodate the feet on the foot-rests in an easy osition.

The invention is il ustrated on the accompanying drawings, where Figure l shows a longitudinal section through the ap aratus, Fig. 2 a cross-section with a partial ront view, Fig. 3 a fragmental view of one side of the drum. Fig. 4 is a view of the other side of the drum.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

In a drum a turning on a horizontal axle are arranged the pairs of brushes l), b1, c, c1, d, d1 for cleaning the boot or shoe, for putting the blacking on, and for producing the shine. These oppositely arranged brushes are, as can be seen from the cross-section (Fig. 2) of a shape corresponding to the different breadth of the boot in the front and behind. The brushes are used two by two one of such a pair cleaning the boot in the front and the other from behind. Owing to the larger size of the feet in front than behind one of the brushes has a larger groove than the other brush belonging to the same pair. The foot-rests are marked with f, f1, f2. The devices g and g1 serve for putting on the blackin or cream. The drum a rotates on the iixed shaft h and is turned by means of the toothed rim i and a toothed wheel 7c engaging the same. It is started by throwing the toothed wheel k1 into gear with the driving wheel l either automatically or not. This driving wheel can be rotated by any source p f power, for instance an electromotor or the As soon as the wheel Z is rotated, a rotary movement of the cleaning rollers b, b1, c, cl and d, d1 is eiiiected through the rotation of the ears m m1 a o nl, o1 1 en avin Wahgale lata.z it i it be nath wifi-.h cou led toothed wheels m and m1 run loose on t e shaft h.

After the shoe has been cleaned by means of the pair of brushes b, b1, the drum is rotated by throwing the toothed wheel k1 into gear with the driving wheel l and keeps on rotating, until the apparatus is adjusted for the next working phase. During this rotation the blacking or cream is put upon the brush-rollers c, c1 and the latter put the same upon the shoe in the drum.

The blacking or cream is put upon the brushes by the following device. Onthe stationary shaft h two separate segments g and r of a beveled toothed crown are arranged (Fig. 4) which mesh with the beveled gears on shafts s, t, which also carry gears meshing with toothed wheels s1, t1. The axles u and u1 (Fig. 2) carrying the toothed wheels s1, t1 respectively operate toothed wheels x, x1 mounted thereon (Fig. 1) by which toothed rods y, 'y1 provided with pistons are pushed into cylinders g, g1 so that the blacking or cream contained in the cylinders is ejected. When the blacking or cream contained in the cylinders g, g1 is consumed t. e. when the pistons are pressed entirely against the rear ends of the cylinders 'a special device may be caused to indicate the fact and the whole machine is put out of action.

What I claim as my invention and desire Y to secure by United States Letters Patent is l. In a shoe-cleaning and polishing apparatus the combination of a rotary drum mounted on a horizontal axle, a moving series of pairs of rotatable brushes within, for cleaning the boot, putting on the blacking or cream and polishing the boot, a series of peripheral apertures being provided in the drum for access of the feet to the brushes, and a series of foot-rests mounted within the rotary drum in positions to accommodate the feet to be introduced in an easy position between the brush-pairs, substantially as described.

2. In a shoe-cleaning and polishing apparatus the combination of a rotary drum mounted on a horizontal axle, a series of pairs of-rotatable brushes within said drum, adapted to act successively on the boot for cleaning it, putting on the blacking or cream, and polishing the boot, said drum having a series of peripheral apertures for access of the feet to the brushes, and a series of foot-rests,

mounted Within the rotary drum in positions to accommodate the feet to be introduced in position between the brush-pairs, the brushes of each pair rotating in opposite direction thereby pressing the foot against the footrest7 substantially as described.

3. In a shoe-cleaning and polishing apparatus the combination of a rotary drum mounted on a horizontal axle, a series of pairs of rotatable brushes Within said drum, adapted to act successively on the boot for cleaning it7 putting on the blacking or cream and polishing the boot, said drum having a series of peripheral apertures for access of the feet to the brushes, a series of foot-rests mounted Within the rotary drum in positions to accommodate the feet to be introduced in position between the brush-pairs, the brushes of each pair rotating in opposite direction thereby pressing the foot against the foot-rests and a series ol devices for putting on the blacking or the cream on each brush of one pair of brushes, the said devices* 

